Heinrich | Sîne | vriunt | die | besten | | his | friends | the | best (ones) |
1388 | die | sîne | kunft | westen | | who | of his | coming | knew |
| die | riten | unde | giengen | | they | rode | and | walked |
| dâ | si | in | emphiengen | | there where | they | him | might receive |
1391 | engegen | im | wol | drîe | tage | | toward | him | a good | three | days |
| si | en- | -geloupten | niemens | sage | | they | not | would believe | noone's | report |
| niuwan | ir | selber | ougen | | nothing other than | their | own | eyes |
1394 | si | kurn | diu | gotes | tougen | | they | recognized | _ | God's | mysterious ways |
| an | sînem | schœnen | lîbe | | on | his | handsome | body |
| dem | meier | und | sînem | wîbe | | the | farmer | and | his | wife |
1397 | den | mac | man | wol | gelouben | | them | can | one | certainly | grant |
| man | en- | -welle | si | rehtes | rouben | | one | unless | will | them | (of their) right | deprive |
| daz | si | dâ | heime | niht | beliben | | that | they | there | at home | did not | remain |
1400 | si | ist | iemer | ungeschriben | | it | is | still | not describable |
| diu | vreude | die | si | hâten | | the | joy | which | they | had |
| si | hete | got | berâten | | them | God | had | presented |
1403 | mit | lieber | ougenweide | | (with) a | lovely | sight |
| die | gâben | in | dô | beide | | which | gave | them | there | both |
| ir | tohter | und | ir | herre | | their | daughter | and | their | lord |
1406 | ez | en- | -wart | nie | vreude | merre | | there | _ | was | never | happiness | greater |
| dan | in | beiden | was | geschehen | | than (that which) | (to) them | both | had | happened |
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